Re:Write your first Linux kernel module
by cnvogel on Friday May 30, 2014 @03:04PM
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I wholeheartly agree with ❝devices people depend on to keep them alive would be running a -- version of the Linux kernel with anything unnecessary stripped out❞.
But the part with a ❝modified version (...) and probably a lot of custom stuff❞ made be shudder.
The Linux kernel is a very well maintained piece of software, and whenever, in the embedded world, I've seen modification or larger forks of the stock/mainline kernel, they always were of worse quality and had more bugs than what I (or everyone else) has gotten used to when running mainline code (as is customary on your normal x86 PCs).
That's because code-review actually works in Linux, and while it makes it sometimes very hard to get new features in, the ones that make it are usually well vettet.
But the part with a ❝modified version (...) and probably a lot of custom stuff❞ made be shudder.
The Linux kernel is a very well maintained piece of software, and whenever, in the embedded world, I've seen modification or larger forks of the stock/mainline kernel, they always were of worse quality and had more bugs than what I (or everyone else) has gotten used to when running mainline code (as is customary on your normal x86 PCs).
That's because code-review actually works in Linux, and while it makes it sometimes very hard to get new features in, the ones that make it are usually well vettet.